BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on April 28, while 'mass hunger strike' on May 4 to register its protest against what it said the repressive acts of the government, reports UNB. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam...
FE Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Overcoming the existing barren investment situation and debt burden and attaining the targeted GDP growth rate would be the key challenges to be dealt with in the budget for the fiscal year 2014-15, economists said Saturday. They suggested setting realistic...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury in Kolkata | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
The ongoing Indian elections are being bitterly fought mostly on the national issues, but ties with the neighbours including Bangladesh do also figure often in campaign with varying degrees of views by the key players of the political spectrum. As...
FE Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Once again the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department (CIID) came up with a big haul of gold when they seized 904 gold bars weighing 105 kg at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the city Saturday. The authority found...
FE Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday that the United States (US) is perhaps not allowing Bangladesh duty and quota-free access to its market on political grounds. "They (US) are not allowing duty and quota-free access possibly on political grounds," finance...
FE Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
The much-needed shower on Saturday evening brought relief to the city dwellers of Dhaka after two weeks of sizzling heat. Mahbub Kabir, meteorological assistant of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told the FE: "It has been raining in some areas of Dhaka...
FE Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Experts at a programme held in the city Saturday recommended flexibility in taxation in the case of money spent by banks on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. They also noted that CSR activities would not increase the profitability of...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh is expected to raise issues including GSP (generalised system of preferences), relaxation of the rules of origin and trade and investment in the first TICFA (Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement) meeting to be held in the city tomorrow...
KHULNA, Apr 26: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said today political interference would not be allowed in the tender process in hospitals. "Tender process in all hospitals of the country would be completely transparent. I will not entertain...
The tender for construction of 70-km four-lane Joydevpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga roads will be invited in May, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said on Saturday. He said the work order will be given in September after evaluating the tender papers. The minister's comments came...
The Cabinet division website, http://www.cabinet.gov.bd), has been hacked. 'Bl@Ck Dr@GoN, Indian Hackers Online Squad', claimed Saturday that it hacked the site. "It's a warning to Bangladeshi hackers, Stop defacing Indian sites. We don't have a fight with you, but if...
Workers of Uttara Jute Mills in Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj have staged demonstrations to force the authorities to meet their three-point demand, including an end to oppression on workers. Their other demands are removal of factory general manager RC Paul...
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to the ferry disaster, in which it was first announced that everyone had been rescued, focusing attention on poor regulatory controls. The Sewol ferry sank...
The first serious, prolonged storms of the year were brewing on Saturday in the Great Plains, with a growing risk of tornadoes touching down in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas in the coming days, federal meteorologists said. A separate storm system...
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine offered on Saturday to release eight captive international observers in a prisoner exchange, as Western governments prepared new sanctions against Moscow. The pro-Western government in Kiev blamed Russia for what it called the kidnapping on...
A man drowned while jumping into a pond to escape from police during a drive at a slum at Mirpur in the city. The officials of Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO), with the help of the police, conducted a...
At least 43 bus workers sustained injuries as police fired rubber bullets and lobbed teargas shells on them when they blocked highways in Sirajganj town on Saturday, protesting the attack on their colleagues by auto-rickshaw drivers. Locals said a group...
Doctors at Bangladesh’s first-ever bone marrow transplant unit have conducted the 2nd stem cell transplant even as the first patient was released from the hospital and recovering fast at home. Prof MA Khan who led the team said they had...
Two people were killed in a 'shootout' between Rab personnel and a group of 'drug traders' near Naf River at Teknaf Upazila in Cox's Bazar district on Sunday, hardly 48 hours after three alleged smugglers were killed and another injured...
President Abdul Hamid left here for Singapore on Saturday night on a seven-day visit for his follow-up medical treatment there. A regular flight of Singapore Airlines carrying the President took off from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 11:55 pm....
As part of her move to reorganise the party, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night formed a two-member convening body of Chittagong North district dissolving its earlier committee. Aslamul Haque Chowdhury was made convener of the new committee while...
FE Online Report | 2014-04-27 00:00:00
Share prices on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw mixed trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 12 points...
Three Mongla Port oil tanker fire victims died on their way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon, hours after they sustained burns in the devastating fire. Two of the dead were identified as Moslem Uddin, 45, son of...
The body of an unidentified young man was found in Meghna River in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj district on Saturday night. Sonargaon Police Station officer-in-charge Md Rezaul Haq said locals found the body of a youth, partially decomposed, in the...
An Imam of a mosque died from electrocution in Godagari municipality in Rajshahi district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mansur Rahman, 58, of Mahishalbari village in Godagari upazila. Locals said when Mansur Rahman was giving Zohr aajan he...
An organised gang has illegally cut down several trees said to be centuries old in Pahartoli area in Chittagong city. At least four trees including one rain tree, a Bunyan tree and a Neem tree, were felled at some time...
The 52nd death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque is being observed in the city as other parts of the country with due respect. Various political and socio-cultural organizations and educational institutions, including Awami League, BNP, Dhaka Chittagong universities, have...
What’s in a table many may ask! When Sheikh Hasina attends a meeting at the defence ministry around a table which her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman used to hold for cabinet meets, the answer is legacy. The Prime Minister...
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